1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Monkeys do not like it when others get more food     1     they do, according to a new study.

Researchers from Yale and Harvard universities found Capuchin monkeys punish monkeys     2     get more food. "This sort of, 'If I can't have it, no one can' response is because     3     psychological spite (怨恨), and it was    4     (previous) thought unique to humans," said Kristin Leimgruber of Harvard University. She is a co-author of the research study. The researchers watched as some Capuchin monkeys     5     (give) more food than others. They found that monkeys getting the     6     (small) share pulled a rope to fold up a table holding the other monkey's bigger share.

Another lead researcher, Laurie Santas,     7     (explain) over email, "I think what we can conclude about humans is that some of our more embarrassing tendencies have relatively deep     8     (root)." Santos said the spiteful response was not present with another member of the ape species—chimpanzees(黑猩猩).

An earlier study, she said, showed chimpanzees would fold up the table of other chimpanzees     9     (steal) food from them. But they would not punish chimpanzees who just happened     10     (have) more food, Santos said. In other words, it was fine if another chimpanzee had more food as long as they did not steal it.

2 . 语法填空

Reading classic literature    1    （write）by native speakers can improve your English language skills in several ways．    2    ，this will not happen by magic：only if you read the book    3    （careful）and think about what you are reading．First，if you concentrate hard，you will not only    4    （large）your vocabulary，but also begin to appreciate slight differences in meaning between words．Second，    5    you examine the language attentively，you can learn to appreciate different English writing    6    （style）．The light and ironic style of Jane Austen is quite different from    7    serious and intense style of Charlotte Bronte though both of them are great writers of English．

Sometimes it is necessary to read a book more than once in order to absorb    8    （it）full benefit．Read it once    9    （understand）the story，once again to appreciate the way the characters are described and the story develops and finally to become really familiar    10    the new vocabulary and expressions．Above all，enjoy the stories．Happy reading!

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Now that summer is finally here, families are preparing for     1     they expect to be a great vacation away from the daily routines. While this once     2     (mean) getting outside and enjoying life, more people are remaining indoors thanks to smart phones and many other modern conveniences. Anyway,     3     is time to get outside to experience summer together with fun family activities. For example, hit the bike paths. Statistics consistently show that half of     4     (child) prefer riding bicycles to playing on computers or smart phones.    5     (consider) the fact that kids are being constantly introduced to digital technology at younger ages, this statistic may seem a little surprising.     6     (fortunate), this doesn’t change the fact that bicycle riding is a fun, healthy, and outdoor activity     7     can be enjoyed within the whole family. Another great family activity getting everyone outside and to enjoy nature is gardening. In addition     8     burning hundreds of calories without traditional exercise, it gives both kids and adults a sense of     9     (achieve) when their hard work pays off. After enjoying some of these summer activities, you might just find your family eager     10     (stay) in the great outdoors.

4 . 下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China now has the ability    1    (change)the world with its "new four great inventions": high-speed railways, electronic payments, shared bicycles and online shopping.The four new ways are most appealing    2    youths from countries in the Belt and Road Initiative.

“My wallet is no longer in use.I can buy and eat whatever I want    3    (simple) with a fingertip on my phone, "said Lin Jinlong, an overseas Chinese student from Cambodia."Even, pancake    4    (seller) are using Alipay.We can also order food at home,    5    is super convenient.If I     6    (be) at home in Cambodia, I would have to go outdoors."As    7    huge fan of bicycles, he also expressed his love for China’s shared bicycles, "They are making public transport more    8    (attract).”

Chinese people's lives    9    (become)more and more convenient for the past 10 years, Lin concluded,    10    (add) that he hopes to promote economic development in his mother country like China.

5 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

There is a reason why we dream. Dreams aren’t just a product    1    our brain develops while we sleep. There is something more to it than that. It’s from dreams that some of the greatest inventions of man have become a     2    (real).

There     3    (be )a very simple exercise to start recalling your dreams. Before    4    (go) to bed, for at least 24 days, keep telling yourself, "I will remember all my dreams."    5    first, you may not see any results at all, but just insist. After a while you will     6     (probable) notice that vague(模糊的)memories of your dreams will stay in    7     (you)mind when you wake up. As you continue to do this, you will notice that it's not just one dream that comes back to you     8    a number of dreams.

Now the fun doesn't just stop there. Try to understand what your dreams mean, and see if it applies to something that is happening in your everyday life Many of the    9    (problem)we struggle with have already been solved in our    10    (amaze) mind. These answers come to us in the form of dreams.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, also called Dragon Head Raising Festival,     1     (fall) on the second day of the second lunar month every year,       2     the rain-bringing Dragon King is said to awaken     3     his winter sleep. It's     4     (wide) believed that the second day of the second month on the Chinese lunar calendar means the start of spring and farming.

The festival is a     5     (reflect) of the ancient agrarian (耕作的)culture. Nowadays, although some of the old ways     6     (celebrate) the festival are no longer in practice, some still keep on. Most of them are still identical to those practised in the ancient times,     7     (include) eating Chinese pancakes and noodles. The most famous     8     (tradition) practice on this day is to have a haircut.Some people believe that going to the barber's on the second day of the second month will get rid of bad luck, while     9     believe it is bad luck to get hair cut during the first month of the lunar calendar. Folk     10     (activity)like dragon dance are also held during the Longtaitou Festival across China.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China's icebreaker Xue Long will set sail from Shanghai to the Antarctic. Its captain Zhu Bing said that the icebreaker would first travel to the to－be－built new station before     1    (make) a short stop at Zhongshan station. One of its main tasks is to build another research station in the Antarctic.

Once     2    (complete), the new station would be the country's third year－round station in the Antarctic and the first to be lying     3     the border of the Pacific Ocean.     4     other two stations, the Great Wall Station and the Zhongshan Station,     5    (build) in the 1980s. “This time around, we will build a 206－square－meter temporary base, which includes rooms for workers and a platform for large engineering     6    (machine), to improve future construction work，” said Zhang Tijun of the Polar Research Institute of China,     7     is the assistant leader of the expedition.

Sun Bo, the deputy director of the institute, was     8    (confidence) to say that the construction of the station, which will     9    (certain) meet international criteria for environmental     10    (protect), will be finished as early as 2022.

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

November 11, known as “Singles Day”, has grown into China’s and possibly the world’s     1    (busy) online shopping day. Singles Day     2    (create) by Chinese college students in the 1990s as     3     version of Valentine’s Day for people without romantic partners. On that day, unattached young people would treat each other to dinner or give gifts to chase that special someone     4    (end) their single status. That gift-giving helped to turn     5     into a major shopping event as sellers saw a marketing opportunity and launched Singles Day sales. It is China’s     6    (respond) to Cyber Monday in the US, the day after Thanksgiving weekend,       7     online shopping for Christmas begins.

Last year,     8    (businessman) on Taobao and Tmall.com took in about $3 billion on Singles Day. This figure exceeded the total of $1.25 billion that U.S. online business earned on Cyber Monday,     9    (make) Singles Day the biggest e­commerce sales day on record. China has the biggest population of online users in the world,     10     about 538 million people online. Now, it follows the U.S. and Japan in online spending and is forecasted to rise to first place as early as this year.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Steel, concrete（混凝土）and glass are common materials in any skyscrapers. But more high buildings are now using wood. In the last four years, Australia, Norway, England and Canada     1     (build) wooden skyscrapers. The latest one is in Sweden,     2     new, 19-storey wooden hotel called “Sida vid Sida” (side by side).

Why are wooden skyscrapers chosen ahead of concrete     3    ?

Wood     4     (use) in many Chinese buildings for thousands of years, but is it strong enough for skyscrapers?

“There are a whole bunch of new materials made out of wood     5     are structurally able to build big buildings,” material expert Dr. Michael Ramage told CNN.

Architects（建筑师）use woven（编制的）wood to make sure it is. They put layers of wood across one another coated with special glue     6     (create) a very strong material.

Wood also lasts a long time and doesn’t rot（腐烂的）    7     it is well looked after. Many examples can be found, one of     8     is the rooftops of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

Ramage also said bamboo     9     be cut in special ways to make it far     10     (strong).

10 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Americans love pets. In America, there are more families with pets     1     those with children. It is common     2     U.S. homes have some sorts of pets, such as monkeys, snakes and even wolves. But Americans' all-time favorites are cats and dogs, because dogs can offer protection from thieves and unwelcome visitors and cats can help get rid     3     the home unwanted pests. For keeping pets, there lies a basic American belief: pets have a right to be treated well. In Houston, Texas, dogs can have their dinner     4    (send) to their homes, just like pizza. Pets can even go with     5     owners on vacation. Besides, there are 75 animal welfare organizations in America     6     provide care and adoption services for     7    (home) and ill-treated animals. To pay for the high-tech health care, people can buy health insurance     8     their pets. Pets are as important to American culture as hot dogs and apple pies. So far researchers     9    (discover) that communicating with animals lowers a person's blood pressure. Pets even encourage social relationships. They give their owners an appearance of friendliness, and they provide     10     good topic of conversation.